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Author Berg, Alan Mark.

Title Sakai CLE Courseware Management : the Official Guide
Published Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2011

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Description 1 online resource (739 pages)
Contents Sakai CLE Courseware Management; Sakai CLE Courseware Management; Credits; Foreword; The Sakai Community; Educational Community License; The Sakai Foundation; Change is the norm; Getting started; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. What is Sakai?; Sakai tools; The Sakai Foundation; Sakai worksite; The community
BranchesWorkgroups; Developers; Rogues Gallery; Sakai's academic background; A brief history; The Java-based tool creation; Sakai 1.0; Present day; What's Next? -- The Sakai open academic environment; Advantages for organizations; Summary; 2. Feet First: Running the Demo; Installing the demo; Administrator's account; Expanding the demo; Help is your friend; Live demos; Building from the source; Summary; 3. Sakai 2.x Anatomy; The Sakai framework; The aggregation layer; The presentation layer; The tools layer; The services layer; Core technologies; How Sakai is deployed at scale; Load balancing
Frontend serversDatabase preferences; The Java Virtual Machine; Enterprise data integration; Sakai OAE anatomy; Architectural overview; Client-side anatomy (""3akai-ux""); Nakamura server-side anatomy (""Nakamura""); Summary; 4. My First Site; Tool-specific help; Managing project sites; Browsing the demonstration; Site creation; Creating a course site; Tools of immediate value; Maintaining your site details; Starter tips; Descriptions are important; Password strength; The motivation for sections; Creating sections; Summary; 5. Enterprise Bundle Tools and Quality Assurance
Using Core tools in Sakai 2.6Core tools since Sakai 2.6; From Contrib to Provisional; Stealthily to Core; Enterprise-level quality; The Quality Assurance process; QA leads; Maintenance releases; Automated testing; Automatic code analysis; Summary; 6. Worksite Tools; Creating flashcards; Commonalities between tools; The Resources tool; Using course tools together; The context; Making a communication plan; Placing Content; Assessing individual students; Introducing Portfolios; Towards OSP integration in Sakai OAE; Summary; 7. Contributed Tools; An apology of sorts
The range of contributed toolsSponsoring creativity; Pros and cons; A list of tools; Example deployments; The University of Michigan; Interview with David Haines, Senior Developer at Michigan; The University of Cape Town; Creating tools; Building tools; SASH; Interview with Steven Githens, the force behind SASH; Summary; 8. Putting Sakai to Work; The tools and structure of a Sakai site; Sakai's site structure; My Workspace; The Home tool contents; The basic collaboration tools; Site administration; The basic teaching and learning tools; Types of Sakai sites; Problem-based courses
Summary Take your e-learning, research, and collaboration experience to the next level
Notes Small discussion courses
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Subject Law -- Study and teaching (Continuing education) -- Computer programs
Educational technology.
Computer-assisted instruction -- Computer programs -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Open source software -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Internet in higher education.
Educational Technology
COMPUTERS -- Educational Software.
Computer-assisted instruction -- Computer programs
Educational technology
Internet in higher education
Open source software
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
Author Dolphin, Ian
ISBN 9781849515436
1849515433